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Technological Institute of The Philippines: Department of Chemical Engineering
Technological Institute of The Philippines: Department of Chemical Engineering
RATIONALE
Our country and the rest of the world including big countries are currently facing with the
newly discovered virus. According to the reports, the largest numbers of Covid-
19 confirmed cases are in the United States, Spain and France. However, even the
countries that the new coronavirus has hit less aggressively are still under much strain.
A lot of scientists are still studying and developing for an effective vaccine to cure those
who are infected with this virus. Since the virus are still spreading all over the world, our
government implements several actions to control the spreading of this virus such as
implementing a total lockdown in Luzon, an Enhanced Community Quarantine of
our country and now some provinces are now under of General Community Quarantine.
Our health workers and health agencies here in our country are always reminding us to
wear face mask, wash our hands, to follow the social distancing, and to disinfect
some things inside the house or even the clothes that we used when we go outside .
The aim of this project is to reduce the bacteria and virus on the surface especially on
those surfaces that are prone in the virus like the hospitals.
The unit is an enclosed air disinfection device, where a pulsed xenon UV lamp is used
as the light source, which can emit a broad spectrum of 200 nm–320 nm. The lamp was
powered by a pulsed power source. The PX-UV system produces a pulsed flash at a
frequency of 30 Hz with an approximate output of 270 J per pulse and a duration of less
than 360 ms. The pulsed xenon UV lamp was placed in the center of a reflective,
aluminum-covered chamber to continuously purify the air. The air flows through the
processing chamber with an internal cross-flow fan with a flow rate of 5.4 m 3/min. In this
case, the cross-flow fan has two functions: (1) driving the air into the device and (2)
cooling the pulsed xenon UV lamp. The reflectivity of the aluminum is proposed to
enhance the light reflection efficiency and increase the time that the pulsed light is in
contact with the air, thereby improving the germicidal activity of the apparatus. The air
outlet was made in the form of shutters to block UV radiation.
REFERENCES
https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-019-4200-3
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1572100019303564
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5824029/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1471-2334-14-187